Setting Alerts by program

[TradingDuke]

Does anybody know a way to programmatically set Alerts in the eSignal desktop application?
Any hidden API, file interface or other trick?
The only nasty method that comes into my mind is to simulate the Alert Edit/Status dialog with some windows scripting engine. There must be a better way!

[AChan]

The Desktop API does not support alert utility. You will have to implement this in your own code.

[Guest]

eSignal alerts - development

Originally posted by AChan
The Desktop API does not support alert utility. You will have to implement this in your own code.

Is it possible to develop this in EFS? Surely this is something that should be made available in eSignal. Otherwise perhaps it should just be called eChart?

I would like to develop my own alert board /signals that I can add a list of securities to and configure it to watch for certain conditions. Seems like it could easily be done in existing eSignal functionality using esf... ?

[eSignal_JasonK]

Custom alerts can be created with EFS. When a particular alert condition becomes true you can use the EFS Alert object to trigger an email, audible or pop-up alerts. Please note however that the EFS evaluates the symbol of the chart in which it is applied to. To have a custom EFS alert you on multiple symbols, the formula will need to be applied to a chart for each symbol you want to track.

[TradingDuke]

no EFS programmable eSignal Desktop Alerts

Hi Jason, this is not the answer to my original question. Of cause I know the Alert API of EFS.

I want to set the eSignal desktop alerts by program. These to my knowledge can only be set interactively with the mouse (right click on a chart and set alert ... or by clicking the bell in the toolbar) and the question was to set these by program. There must be some state which is saved during eSignal sessions describing these Alerts, because they are persistent. So the question remains: Is there some programmatically way to alter this state.

The EFS alerts are not helpful in these cases because they are tied to an eSignal chart, which eats up a lot of resources.

[Guest]

Originally posted by JasonK
Hello

To have a custom EFS alert you on multiple symbols, the formula will need to be applied to a chart for each symbol you want to track.

Thanks for your response JasonK. I would like to see the possibility of applying a range of alerts to a quote list at some point. Is this possible or do you think it already exists in the A GET Scanner facility?

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello TradingDuke,

The alerts that are set manually in eSignal (View-->Alerts) are not currently supported by the API.

Quote windows can have alerts set, but you are limited to the current options listed under the Set Alerts (right-click --> Set Alerts). Quote windows do not currently support customized alerts or EFS alerts. The GET scanners have a list of configurable options. Visit the link provided to find out more.